I am having problem with my sitemap. It returns the follow error.
I search the forums but could not find out the solution. I saw one possible cause of the error... (2 empty lines at the begining of the files which I confirmed in the source files. Please help!
Opera:
XML parsing failed
XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 3, Character: 0)
Reparse document as HTML
Error:
XML declaration not at beginning of document
Specification:
[url=http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/]Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition)[/url]
1:
2:
3: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
4: <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
5: xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
6: xsi:schemaLocation="[url=http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9]www.sitemaps.org - /schemas/sitemap/0.9/[/url]
Firefox:
XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://www.theinfostride.com/forum/index.php?action=sitemap;xml
Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
^
Chrome:
This page contains the following errors:
error on line 3 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document
Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.